Tag: Asthmatic Kitty

While you will have to wait until October 12 to get your hands on a physical copy of Sufjan Stevens’ new album The Age of Adz(Asthmatic Kitty), you can hear all eleven tracks right now over at NPR. The new release marks a fairly significant departure from his 2005 breakthrough album Illinois; orchestral folk-pop is replaced with hip hop beats and tightly blended electronic sounds and textures. Despite all of the changes, Sufjan’s knack for epic storytelling still shines through. The Age of Adz might be a difficult pill for some fans to swallow, but it sure has been growing on me. What do you make of Sufjan’s new direction?

I’m really feeling all of this new Sufjan music we’ve been getting over the past month. Maybe he’s apologizing for falling off the face of the earth for 5 years (this is his first full album since 2005)? If that is the case, apology accepted you funky bastard you…

Stevens is without question taking his music in a new direction (and he’s got his drum machine with him). This new track reeks of Radiohead. Listen and Download below.

When it rains, it pours. Having just announced the release of his first full-length in five years, Sufjan is now offering a free song from the new album. The electro-beat/dub infused “I Walked” is the fourth track off of the upcoming The Age of Adz(out October 12 via Asthmatic Kitty). You can stream the track below and download it over at Sufjan’s site.

Well so much for that New York album I was hoping for. On the heels of the All Delighted People EP, Sufjan announces his first full-length album since 2005’s Illinois. The Age of Adz (pronounced “odds”) will be released October 12 on Asthmatic Kitty. Pre-order the new album here and catch the tracklist below.

The Age of Adz:

1. Futile Devices
2. Too Much
3. Age of Adz
4. I Walked
5. Now That I’m Older
6. Get Real Get Right
7. Bad Communication
8. Vesuvius
9. All for Myself
10. I Want To Be Well
11. Impossible Soul